Summer officially ended last week, but whoever controls the weather apparently didn't get the memo.

The mercury rose to 30 degrees in Estevan on Monday, just two degrees short of the 32.2 degree record temperature that was set back in 1914.

Tuesday could be a record setting day. The highest temperature ever recorded in Estevan for Sept. 28 is 30.6 degrees in 1943.

The forecasted high for Tuesday in Estevan is a sweltering 33 degrees.

"It (the record) is certainly in jeopardy," said Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang. "We've gotten that same pattern back that we had at the beginning of the summer when we had lots of warm weather and lots of dryness."

"Big ridge of high pressure over Western Canada, and we're getting some good warming coming off the Rockies as well...it's like a chinook effect. The warm moist air comes over the mountains and warms even more as it descends, so we're kind of stuck in that same pattern," said Lang.

Lang cautioned that the dry conditions produce the serious threat of grass fires.

"The fields are dry, we haven't received any significant rain, so people should kind of be alert to that," Lang said. "Just be really careful with flames, with any kind of burning. It's a windy time of year too...we tend to get these winds blast through, and any kind of flame can take off really, really quickly, especially when it's this dry."

Temperatures are expected to cool off on Wednesday, but Lang says the heat could return again next week leading up to Thanksgiving.